TH NEW YORK 511 West 25 Street, Suite 607, Chelsea, New York, NY 10001 T 212-675-3057 SEOUL 127-3 Hwa-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea T 82-2-546-3057 www.ablefineartny.com I [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE YANGMI KIM Solo Exhibition December 11 – December 17, 2014 Opening Reception: Thursday, December 11, 6-8pm “Coexistence”, watercolor on paper, 2014 Able Fine Art NY Gallery is pleased to present the gallery’s debut exhibition with Yangmi Kim, opening on December 11th and running through December 17th, 2014. She is a Korea-based artist who works exclusively watercolor on paper. The exhibition features her latest watercolor series that meditates on nature’s season progress. Kim holds up these seasons as a mirror to the lives of everyone. Each season has its own identity. Spring has its brash openness. Summer has its alluring heats. Winter has its bracing frigidity. Yangmi Kim in this exhibition delves into the mystery of autumn. As the multi-colored leaves depart their tree top homes and dance in a spiral windswept beauty. Kim expresses the soul of this season in lonely rocks that peak their heads through the cold river waters. Solace and peacefulness are found in these nature scenes. They are found in a lake reflection of trees and sky, a winding down from summer intensity. Kim finds that fall brings a reflection within her own life and hopefully that of her audience. “Spring came yesterday all of a sudden, then summer, autumn, followed by the cold northern winds, and winter. Full of life the vivid flowers remind me of once passionate youth. The breathtaking summer sun makes everything disarrayed into bright autumn light. Such sadness, enough to hold beauty… I see things coming and going, again and again. It may seem as if everything changes eternally. Yet I remain here and everything is the way it is.” TH NEW YORK 511 West 25 Street, Suite 607, Chelsea, New York, NY 10001 T 212-675-3057 SEOUL 127-3 Hwa-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea T 82-2-546-3057 www.ablefineartny.com I [email protected] JINA YU Solo Exhibition Able Fine Art NY Gallery is proud to present the paintings by Jina Yu in her solo exhibition. Talented Korean artist, Jina Yu focuses on the time and nature of our shared human existence. We are always surrounded by the beauty of the living world regardless of past, present or future. Jina Yu combines these two sentiments in an exhibition of extraordinary depth and simple elegance using watercolor. At the heart of her work is the lonely flower, its petals painted in achingly beautiful warm colors standing in defiance before backgrounds of stone, wood grain or water. The painted picture freezes a frame in time, neither past nor future. It is a snapshot of the present which reminds the viewer of the steady march of time. As time advances we dream of the future or remember the past and much too often ignore the present. The Artist Jina Yu, through her work informs the audience to ‘Slow Down and Smell the Roses’ and appreciate our precious present time. “I stay here just for a while like flowers blossom and gone in a moment of time. Time always goes by quickly to the past like a running machine belt turn around in high speed in my step, and I intend to meet the future with walking more and more fast. Time that go back and I which go forward... In that way I am alive, and remain merely in "NOW" not in the past or future...” Jina Yu Artist Jina Yu was born in Korea and received her B.F.A from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Seoul and other international cities including Hong Kong, Dusseldorf, and Manila. For press inquiries, please contact Kate Bae at [email protected] or 212-675-3057.